Shrinking Audiences for Trump

[babylonsister]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/15/1582743/-Shrinking-Audiences-for-Trump?detail=facebook


Shrinking Audiences for Trump
By arper
Saturday Oct 15, 2016 · 6:10 AM EST


Trump support is shrinking.

The Nation’s Joan Walsh: A Shrinking Trump Mocks His Accusers to Shrinking Crowds

At a recent Trump rally the crowd was far below capacity, around 4000, at a venue where Obama attracted about 10,000 days before.

To preserve the horse-race narrative, MSM avoids reporting this trend. Coverage continues to feature the dwindling number of Trump supporters and surrogates.

Here’s Walsh:

The White Oak Amphitheatre, which President Obama packed to excess of its 7,700 person limit Tuesday night, leaving another 1,500 supporters stranded outside, wasn’t even half full on Friday. A listless crowd occasionally chanted “Trump, Trump, Trump,” but it never got momentum….

etc….

About a half-hour behind schedule …. The embattled GOP nominee seemed to notice the smallish crowd. “Lots of room!” he remarked, as though that’s a good thing at a political rally. But he plowed ahead ...

more:

It was a strange crowd. A protester wearing a black watch cap was put in a headlock by a Trump supporter, an African-American man waving a rainbow flag and wearing a “Gays for Trump” T-shirt. ...

and again, Joan Walsh reports that she

… walked out with a Trump supporter ... who’d driven over an hour to see her candidate. She was, like me, shocked at what a small crowd turned out.

[ColemanMaskell]

1. Sounds good.

[riversedge]

2. TODAY official crowd count at @realDonaldTrump rally: 2,845; Trump said 7,000 in his speech

Nick Corasaniti Retweeted
Paul Steinhauser ‏@steinhauserNH1 1h1 hour ago

NOW: @portsmouthnhfd tells @NH1News official crowd count at @realDonaldTrump rally: 2,845; Trump said 7,000 in his speech #nhpolitics

[Democat]

4. Donald Trump lying about the number of people at a rally?

Is there anything he doesn't lie about?

[NNadir]

5. No. He lies about everything. Interestingly, I heard a stupid person on the radio recently who...

...said that the reason she couldn't vote for Hillary, is that "Hillary is a liar."

Where do these people come from?

I wonder to myself all the time, whether it's the wide distribution of neurotoxins like mercury and lead that leads to this kind of stuff.

It's, um, astounding, terrifying, but astounding.

[exboyfil]

3. The fire martial had to turn them away

[Tess49]

6. Maybe people had other things to do today, rather than going to hear a lunatic talk. n/t